IPv4 ANYCAST setup

* Jeroen Massar:
> Simple recipe:
> - Box with:
> - Your favourite OS
> - Quagga or OpenBGPd
> - Your favourite DNS server
> - Announce the IP of the anycast node in BGP
> - Monitor the DNS server, when it does not work kill your local BGPd
> and notify the admins that it broke
This is fine if you just use BGP to indirectly hook into your IGP.
For global anycast, you need a sufficiently short prefix with no
non-anycast services on it. This can be difficult to justify for
newcomers.
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